Showing posts with label Faces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faces. Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Friday, November 20, 2015
AEDM - Jane
She never looked nice.
She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;
it was supposed to make you feel something."
- Rainbow Rowell
Love that quote - what a great sentiment! It has been quite the mucky week with torrents of rain and wet leaves getting tracked in multiple times a day. As yucky as that has been at least it is better than the predicted low of 24 on Sunday morning.
Check out the other work daily on Art Every Day Month (AEDM)!
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Paint Party Friday, and
Friday, November 6, 2015
AEDM - Doctor's orders
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Show your Face and
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Friday, August 7, 2015
Powder vs. freckles
She was realizing that the powder she used attempting to hide her freckles was more distracting than the freckles themselves.
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Friday, June 26, 2015
A question for you regarding Andrew Wyeth. . .
So yesterday I was out and about with Connor (18) and he took a quick peek into the current issue of MAD magazine while we were waiting to check out of the grocery. He laughs at a political cartoon of Chris Christie saying, "Isn't this funny? - it is referencing Christina's World." He saw my confused face and said - "You do know about Christina's World don't you?" and quickly googles a picture of it. When I saw the artist was Andrew Wyeth I said, "Oh, he's the guy who painted lots and lots of portraits of the neighbor lady and nobody knew anything about it." (See Helga Pictures) At that point it was Connor's turn to look confused.
The big scandal regarding the 247 Helga paintings hit when I was not much older than Connor is now and is the immediate reference my brain goes to when it hears the name Andrew Wyeth. I knew that he had a history as a painter but I was a kid and we didn't have Google then so Helga is the only reference I have for him. Connor says that my not knowing about Christina's World is on the same level as if someone didn't know about American Gothic. So tell me - is it true that I've been living under a rock?? It's okay - I can take it. . .
BTW - this girl is for the Summer of Color Challenge 3 (two purples and one yellow),
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Thursday, June 18, 2015
A plethora of pink
I'm not a huge fan of pink - in fact I often make fun of my friend Kim's love of that hue - but it is time for the Summer of Color Challenge and this week's palette consists of two pinks coupled with an orange. This is exactly why I love this challenge - I'd never paint a picture like this if it weren't for the daunting task of using these colors together and frankly I kinda like it in all its glorious rosy hue - Go figure! Thanks Kristin for making me stretch from my comfort zone!
Linking to Paint Party Friday,
Friday, June 5, 2015
Big Hair Tale
In The Year in Janie's Diary our heroine is valiantly trying to look older and more attractive by, among other things, ratting her hair out to gargantuan proportions. No wonder most girls needed an entire evening to wash and style their hair - can you imagine how much time it would take to wash out all that hairspray?
I haven't used much hairspray in the past decade or so but I will admit that in 8th grade I had some of the best feathered hair around - my technique was to curl and arrange the hair precisely where I wanted it to lay, hold it in place with clips, spray the whole mess into submission and then remove the clips once the hairspray had dried. Worked like a charm until the wind blew or the rain fell. LOL What extremes did you go to for the perfect coiffure?
Linking to Art Journal Every Day,
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Mixed Baggage
It has been an exciting, busy week - our oldest graduated from high school, we attended two graduation parties, enjoyed hosting family in from Seattle and seeing other family that was in town as well. The days flew by in a blur but were so enjoyable - still trying to recover. . .
Linking to Paint Party Friday,
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Bad advice. . .
The fortune cookie bolstered her courage to try a new cut and color with her hair - she learned the hard way not to take advice from a cookie!
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Friday, May 15, 2015
working on my own grass
Our oldest graduates from high school a week from today - where did the time go?? I'm not going to say it seems like yesterday that we brought him home but I will admit that the years have certainly gone more quickly than I expected. In the meantime, I'm in a frenzy of activity to prepare for family arriving and graduation parties to commence.
This girl looks calm and contented and that's what I am going to aim for during this busy time.
Linking to Paint Party Friday,
Sunday, May 10, 2015
traces of the applied arts
"she was pretty but her skin betrayed traces of the applied arts"
Well, time is marching on and I'm not getting any younger - LOL! The old dark circles have been creeping up so I've been watching some makeup videos and there are way too many choices these days! Who knew that I should be applying foundation with a brush and not with a sponge? This is what I ordered - IT Bye Bye Under Eye Concealer. I'm hoping for the best - what products are your favorites?
Linking to Sunday Sketches and
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Wallpaper girl
Recently I noticed that my backgrounds are very bland - a bright pop of color or an occasional flirt with texture. Today I decided to let the background do the talking. What I love is how the girl looks like she was drawn on white paper, cut out and glued on the page but in reality she was drawn first and the "wallpaper" was painted around her. It was really fun to paint these loose flowers. Gonna have to try that again!
Linking to Paint Party Friday,
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Absent-minded girl
I don't know if I'm as absent-minded as I am easily distracted. Maybe they are the same thing - what do you think?
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Friday, April 24, 2015
The Vixen
This girl looks like the tricksy type - you might not give her much credit with that edgy look but she is deep and smart - so look out! LOL
She started out a bit more demure (as far as a girl with blue face paint can be demure) but before I knew it she had put on more and more makeup. . . girls these days!
Linking to Paint Party Friday,
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Toast girl. . .
I must be peculiar - can't think of the last time I had toast - it isn't that I don't like it - just don't ever think to make it. However, when we visited friends in England several years ago they totally lived up to the stereotypical idea of toast eating people.
Are you "toast-er"??
Linking to Sunday Sketches and
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Grimy Girl
We just got back from vacation in the Great Smokey Mountains and had a great time. Picked up a few goodies while we were gone and one of my favorites was a new book to steal quotes out of - 1939's Building Good Health.
Health books weren't nearly that good when I was in school. Quirky touches in this tome include handwritten notes by the original owner and her name written several times throughout - I imagine she did most of that when she wasn't paying attention in class...
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Our son, Caleb (aged 13), likes to play with my kneaded eraser - I never know what shape I am going to find it in - I love the alien. Last night we were watching Survivor and this gem slipped out of him - "If I was Bill Gates I'd spend all my money on obstacle courses."
Kids - gotta love them!
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Crinose girl
There was a cruel boy in class that would call her hirsute simply because he knew she preferred the adjective crinose.
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Monday, March 30, 2015
Illustration Friday - OUTSIDE
Haven't done a prompt from Illustration Friday in a while. This girl was drawn in ink. The cloud was too but was scanned in the computer and digitally resized to make the background sky. I'm figuring that most people will view the topic OUTSIDE in a colorful way so I'm thinking this black/white version will be different from the norm.
Linking to Illustration Friday
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The paper hoarder
Back in the day I was a scrapbook paper hoarder - I had a bad habit of buying several sheets of each pattern that I loved - or even liked. Fast forward a few years and my papercrafting has slowed way down but my paper stash has grown and GROWN!
Now, in an effort to grow my limited storage space and to shrink the unruly paper hoard, I've started cutting the paper into 4" x 6" sheets and using them for scratch paper, etc. It sure is nice to grab a piece of paper and find a gorgeous pattern on the back. In fact, when I turned a sheet I'd been using for the grocery list over the other day and saw the fun Basic Grey cloud paper I immediately grabbed a pen and sketched a girl. Are you a paper hoarder too??
Linking to Sunday Sketches and
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The difference between a house and a home
"The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman - it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
- Lemony Snicket
This girl started on a gelatin leaf print on paper from a childrens' dictionary with help from a Balzer Designs chevron stencil and a sprig of leaves from the backyard. Stencils don't often show up with my girls but when one does it almost invariably ends up being this chevron stencil - love the clean geometric feel that it gives to this layout.
Linking to Paint Party Friday and
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